Bug 121683 – net-firewall/iptables-1.3.5 - ip6tables "Unknown error: 18446744073709551615"

• Status: RESOLVED UPSTREAM
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Török Edwin 2006-02-05 09:41:58 UTC]

Hi,

When I issue the following command, I get an error:
# ip6tables -v -A INPUT  -m state --state ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT
ACCEPT  all opt    in * out *  ::/0  -> ::/0  state RELATED,ESTABLISHED 
ip6tables: Unknown error 18446744073709551615

The rule isn't inserted:

lightspeed edwin # ip6tables -L
Chain INPUT (policy ACCEPT)
target     prot opt source               destination         

Chain FORWARD (policy DROP)
target     prot opt source               destination         

Chain OUTPUT (policy ACCEPT)
target     prot opt source               destination 


The libip6t_state exists:
lightspeed edwin # ls -l /lib/iptables/libip6t_state.so 
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root 5088 Feb  5 21:12 /lib/iptables/libip6t_state.so

Any ideas on how to debug this error?

Kind regards,
Edwin

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Output of 'emerge -vp iptables':
[ebuild   R   ] net-firewall/iptables-1.3.5  USE="ipv6 -extensions -static" 0 kB

Output of emerge --info:
Portage 2.1_pre4-r1 (default-linux/amd64/2005.1, gcc-3.4.3, glibc-2.3.5-r0, 2.6.15-gentoo-r3 x86_64)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.15-gentoo-r3 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3200+
Gentoo Base System version 1.6.13
ccache version 2.4 [enabled]
dev-lang/python:     2.3.5-r2
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.11
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.59-r6
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1
sys-devel/binutils:  2.15.92.0.2-r10
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.18-r1
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.11-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=k8 -pipe -O2"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/splash /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-march=k8 -pipe -O2"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms strict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://ftp.roedu.net/pub/mirrors/gentoo.org/"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="amd64 X aac acpi alsa avi berkdb bitmap-fonts cdr crypt cups dvd eds emboss encode foomaticdb fortran gif gpm gstreamer gtk2 imlib ipv6 jpeg kde lzw lzw-tiff mp3 mpeg ncurses nls nvidia opengl pam pdflib perl png python qt quicktime readline sdl spell ssl tcpd tiff truetype-fonts type1-fonts usb userlocales xpm xv zlib elibc_glibc kernel_linux userland_GNU"
Unset:  ASFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY

[Comment 1 Török Edwin 2006-02-05 09:49:56 UTC]

It seems to be a common problem with ip6tables, and the state match, see:
https://lists.netfilter.org/pipermail/netfilter/2006-February/064672.html
(the error code is different there)

[Comment 2 SpanKY 2006-02-05 12:40:48 UTC]

upstream issue ... better to track it there

[Comment 3 Maurice Volaski 2006-04-08 22:26:12 UTC]

I am sseing this error in IPv4 iptables https://bugzilla.netfilter.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=467